Cleethorpes Remembrance Sunday lapse - could no one be bothered to straighten the banner?

VIPs seem oblivious to the sloppy backdrop as they prepare to take the salute 

CLEETHORPES was let down this morning at the marchpast of Services organisations following the Remembrance Day service in Cleethorpes. 

The Lest We Forget banner at the front of The Knoll had slipped and no one had seen appropriate to straighten it. 

It surely would have been better to have taken it down all together than to have allowed it to dangle so disrespectfully. 

Smart and respectful - more than can be said for the banner

VIPs take the salute - but the event was demeaned by the shoddiness behind them
 

The Grimsby News says: What went wrong here? Money cascades into the Armed Forces Events Team from both the Ministry of Defence and North East Lincolnshire Council for the upkeep of The Knoll. It is surely unacceptable that the organisation failed to ensure a satisfactory backdrop for the most important event in its calendar. The lapse seemed disrespectful not just to onlookers but, more importantly, to those whom we had all gathered to remember. Could not someone have borrowed a ladder in order to re-attach the banner? An explanation is required.